4 month soak West side

[AKBowman]

Nice bucks!  But I think your cams are still aimed too high.  Looks like in the fawn pic, mamma's rump just got into the lower left corner of the picture.  Could you mount the camera higher, and point it downwards?  that would get it above any ferns, and cover the actual trail and get the smaller critters.  Just be glad you don't have a pesky resident Robin and Jay that keep triggering the camera like where mine is... 

Yeah I definitely try to jam a stick in there on the top of the cam to angle it downwards, facing north, clear brush/ferns etc. Blacktails are just tough I've figured. Hard enough to get a decent buck to step in front of your camera let alone get a shot at one. I packed in 150# of salt just to get the very occasional pic of a buck and mostly feed the bears and squirrels. It's funny to hear the guys on the east side saying they put the cams out with some salt and had a full card in a few weeks then see the pics of the nice whities posing in front of the cams. Not Blacktails they are really recluse ba$tards.

[bobcat]

Just  something to think about- you mentioned your cameras are facing north, I know that is often recommended, but if you think about it, in the summer the sun rises in the NE and sets in the NW. So in the summer, you're better off facing your cameras due south, not north. It may not really matter in your case since you're back in the timber and/or heavy cover where the sun may not shine anyway.

[AKBowman]

Huh...hadn't thought of that, it certainly effects the new Moultrie IR's I've gotten. I've gotten lots of washed out pics in daylight with those and that's probably why. The standby flash Tascos do fine but I'll keep that in mind.

can't wait to put up the ladder stands, hang the hang on, set the climber in place and hose the trail in front of my stand with doe piss!! One thing that's great about the area is that the wind blows out of the south from about 1 in the afternoon 90% of the time so it sets up really nice for stand hunting.

[bobcat]

You know, I started out with white flash trail cams (Moultrie D40's and Tasco) and lately I've gotten a few of the IR cams and I have to say, I have learned that I really like the white flash cameras a lot better. With a white flash camera you always get good pictures at night. The IR's are often blurry, from the animals movement, and they're grainy. Very often I've had pictures of a buck with one of my IR cameras, but can't see it well enough to count points. My old Moultrie D40's may be battery hogs, but at least when I get a picture of a buck, I can tell what it is.

White flash cameras are hard to find anymore, but I just ordered one from Amazon to try out. You might want to take a look, they have the Moultrie D55 for $59.86, free shipping. Should be a great little camera from the research I've done on it. Only drawback is a relatively slow trigger speed. But I'll probably only use it with bait in front of it, so that won't matter.

[AKBowman]

You know, I started out with white flash trail cams (Moultrie D40's and Tasco) and lately I've gotten a few of the IR cams and I have to say, I have learned that I really like the white flash cameras a lot better. With a white flash camera you always get good pictures at night. The IR's are often blurry, from the animals movement, and they're grainy. Very often I've had pictures of a buck with one of my IR cameras, but can't see it well enough to count points. My old Moultrie D40's may be battery hogs, but at least when I get a picture of a buck, I can tell what it is.

White flash cameras are hard to find anymore, but I just ordered one from Amazon to try out. You might want to take a look, they have the Moultrie D55 for $59.86, free shipping. Should be a great little camera from the research I've done on it. Only drawback is a relatively slow trigger speed. But I'll probably only use it with bait in front of it, so that won't matter.

Bobcat, I think you and I are pretty similar in our research and choices into which cams we run. The thing about the IR's that I've found is that you have to "coin up" if you're going IR, you need enough IR bulbs to get any distance and you need to spend the money to ge the technology so you don't get a bunch of washed out pics or blurry pics. I swear the best pics camera I've ever had is my old Moultrie D-40 flash cam. Trigger speed sucked but you could compensate for the bad trigger speed by setting it in 3 shot burst mode...also took a bunch of D cells. Thing lasted me 4 years until it finally got mauled by a bear this year and water ended its time in the field.

I did a couple test with the Moultrie LX30irs I bought and the pics suck but the videos seems to be pretty good plus it takes a 10 second video then follows that with a pic so that might make up for the piss poor trigger speed. Won't make up for the fact that you can hear the shutter going off from 30 yards away!